Learn to improvise on the piano
If you’ve ever wished you could just sit down at the piano and play — freely, from your imagination, without sheet music telling you what to do — this is the place for you.
HOW IT WORKS
The sounds you imagine, at your fingertips
Most piano programs teach you to play other people’s music. This one teaches you to play your own.
From your very first lesson, you’ll start exploring the sounds of the piano by ear — learning to recognize them, feel them, and use them to express your own musical ideas. You’ll learn to connect what you hear in your imagination directly to the keys in front of you, and you’ll understand the harmony behind the music you love instead of just following instructions on a page.
You do not need to know anything at all about music theory to begin, and you don’t need to be able to read sheet music. This program will give you a solid foundation in both harmony and improvisation on the piano that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Beyond sheet music
Understand how music really works and create your own music right from the first day.
Solid foundation
Discover the inner workings of modern harmony and master improvising over chords and chord progressions.
Mind to fingers
Connect your ear with your instrument, playing sounds and melodies exactly as you hear them in your mind.
THE PROGRAM
Everything you need to start improvising on the piano
Complete step-by-step video courses with piano lessons, musical demos, theory lessons, fully integrated ear training program, and hundreds of jam tracks to practice soloing over.
Everything is included in your membership!
LESSON SAMPLES
Step by step into a new musical world
Through step-by-step video lessons, you’ll learn to improvise your own melodies over chord progressions, add your own chord voicings anywhere on the keyboard, and freely combine melody and chords in either hand.
This holistic approach to the piano connects melodic improvising and chordal playing right from the start. The result is that you’ll be able to add richness and depth to your solos effortlessly, and you’ll even be able to play totally unaccompanied solo piano — creating a complete musical world for your listeners.
Each lesson takes you to a whole new level in your musical thinking, giving you tools to develop your own music and your own style with every new concept. And these concepts stack up fast — resulting in a way of playing at the end of the course that most students can’t even imagine at the beginning.
Course samples (understanding the keyboard)
Course sample (building chords and progressions)
JAM TRACKS FOR PRACTICING
Jam tracks — practice every concept over real music
Each lesson comes with a complete set of jam tracks (in multiple styles and all 12 keys), designed specifically for the material you just learned. At every step of your learning, you’ll be exploring the sounds creatively and developing your own musical voice.
The IFR Jam Tracks give you an organized path through the entire world of modern harmony. As soon as you learn each new concept, you can take it straight to your instrument and start exploring it over real music.
These professional backing tracks are also 100% integrated with our “Sing the Numbers” ear training program which is also included in your membership.
INTEGRATED EAR TRAINING
Sing the Numbers — ear training that connects directly to your playing
Sing the Numbers is our audio ear training method — and for pianists, it’s the perfect companion to your video lessons. For each set of sounds that you explore on the piano, our Sing the Numbers tracks teach you to recognize those exact same sounds in the music all around you. Each exercise uses actual melodies — not random intervals or test prompts.
You’ll be learning with real music. And the practice couldn’t be simpler. Play the track, listen to the melody, and sing it back. No instrument needed. You can do it on a walk, during a commute, anywhere. But when you sit back down at the piano, you’ll notice the difference immediately — your ear is more oriented, your playing is more connected, and the sounds you’ve been singing start to appear naturally in your improvising.
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THE RESULTS
Benefits to your piano playing
- Learn to visualize the notes of any key instantly on the piano.
- Move beyond sheet music. Understand how music really works and create your own music right from the first day.
- Learn how to use chords and chord progressions for totally unaccompanied solo piano performance.
- Learn how to hear the chord tones melodically, and bring out these sounds in your music.
- Learn to play with both hands at the piano, improvising melodies and chords in either hand.
- Learn how to connect your ear with your instrument, playing sounds and melodies exactly as you hear them in your mind.
- Learn how to improvise over changing chords with complete melodic freedom, playing directly from your musical imagination.
- Method 100% integrated with your ear, with creative exercises for both piano and voice.
TESTIMONIALS
See what fellow pianists are saying
IFR is not a collection of quick tips and clever tricks, that only give you superficial skills, like you get from many YouTube videos. IFR goes deep into the musical sounds and their relationships in an organized, methodical way. You learn music at a deep level so you can be a real musician.
You can take the smallest bite out of this method and gain the nourishment to feed your musical quest for weeks at a time.
I was a frustrated sheet-music-playing piano student before IFR. Now, the world of music has opened up to me. I understand the patterns of music and how they fit together. I have new ways of hearing sounds in context which completely changed the way I listen to music. I can't recommend the IFR enough!
I never thought I wanted to be able to improvise, but this method is so much more than improvisation—I'm finding that it really is giving me insights into how to speak the language of music.
Your method was the missing piece that I needed to express my full potential.
I am always searching for new teaching methods and IFR is the best I have ever seen
This method gave me the courage to work happily in a project of French music, a rock band and a film score. I use it with my students and their faces light up!
Thank you for your excellent piano instructions, and particularly for helping me to incorporate my left hand into my piano practice, which has definitely taken my piano playing to the next level and made it much more enjoyable.
GET ACCESS
Everything you need to improvise on the piano
Everything you need to master improvising on the piano
Complete step-by-step video lessons, musical demos, fully integrated ear training program, and hundreds of jam tracks to practice soloing over.
- Step-by-step video lessons for piano
- 1,900+ jam tracks in all 12 keys and different styles
- Beautiful ear training audio lessons
- Single integrated learning method with a clear path
- Your membership also includes our courses for guitar, bass and melodic instruments.
- Access to our library of student Q&A + unlimited support by email
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Try Improvise for Real risk-free
We’re confident that IFR will transform the way you think about music and unlock your creative freedom on your instrument. But we also know that every musician’s journey is unique. That’s why we offer a simple 30-day money-back guarantee.
Join today, explore the video lessons, practice with the jam tracks, and experience our unique approach to ear training. If you don’t feel that IFR is the right fit for you within your first 30 days, just send us an email and we’ll refund your payment—no questions asked.